British Quote by Doris Lessing

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the…

— Doris Lessing

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

— Dean Acheson

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

— Pat Robertson

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these…

— Malcolm X

“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the…

— Charles Emmerson

But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call 'empire' spans…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

— Linda Colley

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“But Empire building also bears the seeds of its own destruction. The closer a state comes to the ultimate goal of world domination and…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

— John Oliver

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson